Tom Ivar Helbekkmo wrote:
> Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com> writes:
> 
> 
>>The server permits about 100 simultaneous connections.
> 
> 
> ...but there are mirrors.  Could I ask you to explain the simplest way
> of changing from using cvs.netbsd.org, to using a mirror?  Will I have
> to write a script to recursively seek out and edit files in every CVS
> directory, or is there a way to make CVS do it for me?  Can I expect
> the change to be seamless, or could there be timestamp trouble that I
> should avoid by (temporarily, at least) running CVS with checksumming
> after the change?
> 
> I've been wanting to do this for a while, but haven't gotten around to
> investigating -- and a good explanation on current-users might do a
> lot of good for the poor root server...  :-)
> 
> -tih

Last time I used a cvs mirror, I wasted a lot of time tracking why 
build.sh was failing, turned out the source tree on that mirror was 
inconsistent, doing fresh 'cvs checkout' from official netbsd cvs server 
fixed all problems. From now on I avoid using mirrors :-/